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Code 8185
EUR 1000.00
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1751903094Code 8185 BrigFinely crafted scale model of a three-masted barque, trunk, main and mizzen mast, in addition to the presence of the bowsprit, oak hull. Ligurian manufacture from the end of the 19th century.
Measurements cm 60x18x51 – inches 23.6x7.1x20
This is a sailing ship that found considerable diffusion between the 16th and 18th centuries, widely used for commercial purposes and thanks to its characteristics it could be easily equipped to defend commercial convoys from frequent pirate attacks.
The term brigantine is of Italian origin and derives from “brigante”, meaning “member of a brigade”: in fact in the 15th and 16th centuries the brigantine was frequently used as a unit for privateering and piracy.
The brigantine was widely used as a cargo or escort ship, and was widely used in the Mediterranean Sea and in northern Europe.
Ship modeling was born for religious reasons. Not content with the banality of his own life, man wants another and moreover eternal, but the soul - by definition immaterial - needs a means to reach the afterlife; it must cross a river, and to do so it needs a boat. The oldest model is a silver boat of about sixty centimeters found in the excavations of Ur in Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, and dates back to 2,000 BC. Modeling was reborn in the 15th century, again for religious reasons, but this time as an ex-voto, even if the most important and precious models were those built by shipyards: in fact, until the 17th century, ships were not designed with a drawing; length, width, masts, armament were decided and then the ship was relied on by a trusted shipyard that "by eye" built the ship according to the instructions received. To convince the sovereign or the minister who had to finance the construction, however, it was necessary to show him something, and to show him what the ship would be like, a model was built, often of large dimensions, and the better it was made, the better it responded to the marketing of the time; often the king fell in love with the model and kept it for himself, and this is why many of these models have come down to us.
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